Tag: COVID-19

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 09:08 UTC

  Boris Johnson remains in intensive care with his condition “improving”

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's condition was said to be “improving” on Wednesday, as he spent a third day in intensive care battling COVID-19. The disease has struck at the heart of the British government, infected more than 60,000 people across nationwide and killed more than 7,000.

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  UN Security Council meets to discuss pandemic, urged by non permanent members

  

  After weeks of disagreement - especially between the United States and China - the UN Security Council will meet on Thursday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic for the first time.

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  COVID-19 infected “Greg Mortimer” Australians expected to leave for Melbourne on Saturday

  

  The sanitary charter aircraft contracted to repatriate Australians on board the coronavirus infected “Greg Mortimer” cruise, stranded off the Uruguayan coast is expected this Thursday in Montevideo, and will be flying to Melbourne on Saturday according to foreign ministry sources.

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Falklands: five cases of COVID-19, all of them serving at Mount Pleasant Complex

  

  The Falkland Islands government announced on Wednesday that there are five confirmed cases of COVID-19, all individuals currently serving at the Mount Pleasant Complex, some fifty kilometers from the capital Stanley. This means no residents of the Islands have been contaminated with the virus.

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 08:51 UTC

  WHO's Tedros rebukes Trump and calls for unity: ”For God's sake ... is this (death toll) not enough?”

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday pleaded for global unity in fighting the coronavirus and gave a strident defense of his agency's handling of the pandemic, in response to US President Donald Trump's criticism.

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  February's services sector confirms Brazil is heading for recession

  

  Services activity in Brazil shrank 1% in February, official figures showed on Wednesday, the biggest monthly fall in over 18 months and another sign Latin America's largest economy was already in go-slow mode before the coronavirus crisis erupted.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 12:17 UTC

  The 14,7 million Euro coronavirus masks order that never reached Germany

  

  Authorities in Germany have fallen victim to a multi-million-euro fraud involving masks much needed in the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors said on Tuesday. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state and one of the hardest hit, paid 14.7 million euros for some 10 million masks in March only to discover they did not exist, according to prosecutors in Traunstein, Bavaria.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 10:33 UTC

  Gloria Stefan invites you to sing “Put on your mask”

  

  Another COVID-19 parody song has appeared, this time by Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan. She posted a video of the song on her Instagram inspired by her 1989 hit Get On Your Feet. This time, however, instead of getting on one’s feet, Estefan is encouraging others to “Put On Your Mask”.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Brazil and US clash over delivery of Chinese supplies of medical equipment

  

  The US ambassador to Brazil on Tuesday denied reports that the US government took over Chinese supplies of medical equipment that were ordered by Brazil to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 07:28 UTC

  Brazilian athletes and soccer players helping favela residents with food and money to battle COVID-19

  

  As infections of the novel coronavirus rise steadily in Brazil and threaten to cause chaos in its densely populated favelas, some of the country's leading athletes are stepping up to help the most vulnerable communities.